Do you personally know everything, almost know everything or know more than anyone else?

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Jann Nikka Profile
Jann Nikka answered

What I personally know can fit on a safety pin tip🙃.

Rooster Cogburn Profile
Rooster Cogburn , Rooster Cogburn, answered

Not in the least ! I learn new stuff almost every day. It seems the people who "think" they know everything are just delusional. A legend in their own minds.

Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

Nooooooo!!!! Just ask my kids, they'll tell you. I don't know anything.

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Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
Exactly Barb. They won't admit it until I bring it up either.
Barb Cala
Barb Cala commented
My son still looks in shock when I do something he actually thinks is "smart" ... LOL! What is great is that his son thinks I'm great and he's only 6!!! :)
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
LOL
Matt Radiance Profile
Matt Radiance answered

No. I can not know everything. I can live hundred of years on this planet and i imagine and i've seen and realized everything. But at the end suddenly something happens that i understand, after all these years, i know nothing. That's life. We can never know everything. I might know less or more than someone else. Although, that is also rare. Everyone on this planet are capable of something. Something that many other might have no idea about! The world is a puzzle and each person are the pieces who create the final image.

You see i can swear i know a lot of things! But:

I don't know how to fix things like Hippy.

I don't know how to fly like Rooster.

I don't know how to cook like ladies Dragonfly, Tiger, Sin, Happy or Angela with their magical recipes.

I don't know how to write like Didge nor knowing how to be with such sense of humor!

and many more . . . .

Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

I find that I know enough to know that I don't know everything, nor will I be given enough time to know everything. The pursuit continues every day, nonetheless.

Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Dear Jan,

Interesting Q, and through history there have been occasional people so well educated so as to know 'everything.' However I once read the last of these was Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the Swedish scientist, philosopher and mystic...

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Since his time, knowledge has proliferated so much it is now deemed no longer possible for one person to absorb it all...but maybe that is no reason for us not to give it a go!

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Like others, there is much I do not know; and I am amazed how much "newness" is discovered every day.

I have had the opportunity to pursue sufficient knowledge that satisfies my curiosity in the areas that have been of interest to me.

There are a number of areas in my life that I no longer need to study because I have so far had a place to put new knowledge in those areas that I acquire.

I intend to remain flexible, however, in my pursuit of additional knowledge and understanding.

And interestingly, the knowledge that I have re-associates itself unbidden to present me with new and / or additional understanding.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dear Tom, yes one of those breath-taking mysteries, the re-association of knowledge unbidden...
Call me Z
Call me Z commented
Epiphany?
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
That is an interesting word, Dear Z, as we try to describe the fascinating experience of being human...
KB Baldwin Profile
KB Baldwin answered

It is a progressive thing.  When I was 18, I pretty much knew everything.  Gradually, over the years I have known less and less.  Approaching 71, I realize that I know almost nothing about anything.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Oh Dave Green...I am laughing...yes...
And wasn't there a philosopher who said the process you describe is the beginning of wisdom?

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